History
Founded in 1959, the LSU Museum of Art opened its doors to the public in 1962 as a small period room museum in the Memorial Tower. In 2005, it moved to the Shaw Center for the Arts, where it has more than 13,000 square feet of immense exhibition space.
Specialties
As the only dedicated art museum in the City of Baton Rouge, the LSU Museum of Art serves more than 20,000 adults and children who visit the museum's galleries annually. In addition to holding one of the largest university-affiliated art collections in the South, the museum presents world-class touring exhibitions of regional, American, and European painting, sculpture, decorative arts, works on paper, and photography.